- Grey-headed Fish-eagle (Haliaeetus ichthyaetus) is found in South East Asia. - Photo courtesy of Tan Tze Siong‎. What a shot!!!

Conviction in Red, Redemption in Iron is a story about the life of a girl who survives a genocide and kills the world in the pursuit of her culture's role of a grudge-bearer, the only ritual she can preserve because it is the only one that doesn't need two people to oversee.

Pandemonium

okay i change my mind, THIS is one of the best and most beautiful images from artemis ii

There is such a genuine rancid ideological horror lurking underneath so much of 'cozy' fantazy. Beyond the dubious truthism that escapism is not only good but necessary, so much reads like fiction for people who don't even know about difficult things. The Zone of Interest of literature.

Writers and artists and creatives of all sorts: reply with a link to one of your works, if you'd like. And feel free to tell us about it. Everyone: let's check through the replies and buy some creations and support some human beings.

I am really not OK with that “but America is so BIG and the cops are so MEAN and we’re so SMOL” post, I just have to say it

I'm the daughter of an Army paratrooper who refused orders during our illegal invasion of Vietnam back in the day. He went to LBJ military jail. Dad taught his girls this: "Just following orders" is NEVER any excuse for anyone who's complicit in war crimes. You MUST refuse heinous orders.

American exceptionalism is like social gravity, no one regardless of politics can escape. I fully believe many Americans, when it is necessary, will step into the breach as they have done time and time before. It will not, however, be individuals like this who want to play martyr without martyrdom

BTW the people who spent the last few years advocating for Palestine were clearly 100% right that normalizing war crimes and genocide there would just increase the likelihood of inhumane actions elsewhere. Just saying.

This is a sick civilization. An open call to genocide. It is clear that Gaza is how we got here- tolerating genocide in one space begets another. Generations of our ancestors have worked to build something different, toward the preservation of earthly life. I hope I live to see this re-orientation.

Americans unable to reckon with America as it is will never be apart of free world. Trump only difference from what proceeded him is the vulgarity and thus honesty of what he says. George W. Bush killed a million Iraqis and so many 'liberals' want to rehabilitate him. You need to reckon with it.

The highest quality video of the moon was just released… so beautiful * Artemis II

And the fandom eventually, inevitably replaces the art (and subsequently the artist) as the focal point of such spaces. It's the apotheosis of consumerism as the main cultural text of society. What is important is not the qualities of the art, but the endless opinions of the audience. Death knell.

Roger Ebert:

Just splurged on a bunch of novels I've been meaning to get to, which I don't usually do anymore because I have so many that I haven't gotten to and goddamn that lack of mass paper back hurts the wallet. I know most people probably just use an e-reader now for that price point but still damn.

It's almost trite to say it nowadays but the narrative around the inefficacy of violence in response to violence within the context of Palestine should have to contend seriously with the fact that the alternative was in fact tried and it was met with universal disdain from the US and Israel.

Look At You, It's Pathetic!

really do feel like, despite its egalitarian posture, that the 'let people enjoy things' didn't increase the amount of works that can be sincerely appreciated but rather helped turn the discourse around art into pure consumerism that only ever flattens a limits art--a kind of aesthetic nihilism

Happy International day of Transgender Visibility! All my homies say Trans Rights are Human Rights / anyone who's cool knows it too. We see you out there. Choose to be yourself and know that we have your back. Much love and respect today (and every day)! 🏳️‍⚧️ #transrights #transdayofvisibility

I'm currently writing a kind of 'speculative biology' story about a wildlife photographer on a 'counter-earth', which I'm enjoying, but I can't keep my mind off of my next story after, a send of Jeff VanderMeer's An Early History of Ambergris novella and Gramsci's Prison Notebooks

tech brain undefeated at making you a dumbass

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A gentleman 🍄

I agree, stage 3 cancer is better than stage 4 cancer

There is a balance to be had between graphic design sensibilities and illustrated/painterly covers of course, but there is something to be said that one side of this spectrum is basically ashamed to be depicting genre fiction and they other side isn't, and I personally find value in that.

another day in which, on top of everything else, I'm mad about the SFF cover shift from "little pre-raphaelite painting you can put in your pocket" to "we gave the intern our Canva log-in"

Stoat hopping across snow: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/NatureIsFu...

#bluemaga and all you vote blue people. Most of you haven’t grasped why the #dems and #harris lost. Read Omar el Akkad’s recent book. Chapter 3 is for you. Performative bullshit ain’t cutting it in 2026. #booksky #nonfiction #gaza

I think it's cool when the (mostly white) art community take a disagreement about art as an opportunity to collectivly call a (talented) Black man a moron, more or less incapable of thought. Very, very cool stuff, thank you Cinema Strikes Back, you saved Da Movies!

death of the author is intended as a framework for literary analysis that entails disregarding paratext and the intentions of the creator in order to create an "objective" analysis of a text. it's not intended as a way to absolve yourself of guilt for financially contributing to a creator who sucks

Also, not to be a hater, even though I am, he doesn't really produce interesting work, which in turns make more interesting work made in harsher confines all that much more worthwhile imo. You should dream of writing of more interesting stuff than Sanderson's factory form fantasy imo!

He writes 8 solid hours a day five days a week and has a staff of 35. Someone cleans his house, makes his meals, handles his admin, and does his laundry. One cannot compare oneself to Sanderson levels of output 😆

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Happy Birthday Bloodborne

Liberals in America want nothing more than to be Ronald Regan, and every single problem they have had in their politics is downstream of that, up to and including the vicious xenophobia for 'correct' state enemies.

It's insane to me that none of these people ever take a moment to self-reflect that their society and government has maybe been lying to them about state enemies and about what it does in the world and to the world.

Commodified fantasy takes no risks: it invents nothing, but imitates and trivializes. It proceeds by depriving the old stories of their intellectual and ethical complexity, turning their truth-telling to sentimental platitude.

RIP Sam Kieth His influence will live on.

Sam Kieth did not bend for comics. Comics bent to him. I won't call his manner of drawing merely a style because that implies some level of artifice. Maybe not since Kirby had mainstream comics seen an artist with less filter between his imagination and the printed page.

Antisemitism is hatred. Period. But it’s very frustrating to me that so many people confuse fact-based criticism of Jewish people, Jewish groups, and/or of Israel committing or supporting heinous crimes against humanity as antisemitism.

I find it incredibly interesting that as Israel extends their genocidal campaign into South Lebanon in an obvious case of settler colonialism the prevailing discourse on this sight is the people who most oppose that campaign have an antisemitism problem. Obviously don't use slurs invented by a KKK

I wonder if this guy still thinks there was a Hamas headquarters under the hospital Israel 'accidentally' bombed a dozen times

THE MANY-COLORED LAND (1982) Acrylic I loved Julian May’s “Pliocene Exile” series, but I never felt like I did the books justice. I remember struggling to come up with dramatic concepts for this, but Del Rey didn’t go for them. 1/3

People get mad at me when I say this but fantasy writ large is probably the most boring it has ever been. There is a real cultural homogenization happening via publishing big short fiction markets, and algorithms are enforcing something similar on indie authors. Romantasy, cozy fantasy, Sanderson..

Fantasy is getting way too mormon coded all of a sudden, sanderson's window plan prose, DNDs pathetic art style and cultural practices, everything going on with popular romantasy. we need to make it fucked up, illogical, and transexual again. At least catholicism was theatrical; tolkien and wolfe.

I don't know. I don't mean this to be inflammatory, but this is kind of crux, the fracture point of modern criticism of the arts, in the sense this person, who runs a craft blog, is essentially saying 'let people enjoy things' in a way that is reflective of their sense of quality...

Sugared Sunburst Lichen (Xanthoria sorediata). Northwest Territories, Canada. #lichen #fungi #fungifriends